, 1887-12-08
A DRUNKEN ROW.
A Woman Terribly Beaten at a Road
Ranch Up North.
One Moore Is the Assailant and
LOttie Smith the Victim.
He Threatens to Kill a Man Who
Asks Him to Desist.

Fort Laramie the night of Nov. 80 and
the morning of December /. Upon that
occasion the dive was the scene of a
drunken origie which will probably result
In the death of a courtezan named Lottie
Smith, and which almost ended in the
murder of one Cal Williams by Moore.
The woman WHO was the recipient of a
villain 8 brutal blows, makes her home at
another road house presided over by
Henry Rittling and situated a few hun
dred yards from the dive in which the
circumstance preceding the assault trans
pired.
On the night of Nov. 30 Lottie Smith
vi sited Moore's establishment and found
a monte game in progress. The propri-
etor, anxious to induce a stranger who
was present to lay money against the
bank, provided the woman with a few
coins. She staked the money and played
remarkably lucky, but finally lost. In
the meantime the bar had been transact
ing considerable business, and nearly
everyone about the place was more or less
under the influence of liquor. The woman,
in a drunken freak, placed an opcn knife
on the game table and bantered the dealer
to play for it.
At this ju%ncture Pat Kavanaugh, an
employe of the place, attempted to re-
move her from the club room. In the
ensuing scuffie he was scratched on the
neck by the sharp point ofthe knife blade,
and bled quite profusely.
The sight of the red fluid oozing from
the vicinity of Cavanaugh's jugular vein
frightened the woman and she started for
home accompanied by Cal Williams and
two enlisted men from the post.
The party had proceeded but a short
distance on their homeward journey when
Moore a~ccosted the woman, shouting that
she had murdered Kavanaugh. She de.
INJURED and he roughly insisted, approach
ing her while talking the brute again up
braided her with the assassination of the
attachce of his place and with one blow
felled her to the ground.
Nor did he stop at this. As the poor,
helpless creature lay upon the ground I'M
conscious, with a hellish cruelty born of
cowardice. the caricature of a man
stamped the broad heel of his heavy boot
on the delicate face. inficting most serious
iniu.ies to her features and skull. On
the latter are still two horrible gashes.
while her face is terribly mutilated.
Williams, apparently afraid OF Moore,
begged him to desist, joining his plea for
a show OF manhood and humanity with
the woman's lncoherent prayers for her
life. The tend responded with an oath,
saving, as he reached for the usual repos-
TORY of his ever ready revolver: I'll
kill her, and LII blow the brains out of
the first " who dares to
interfere.
Wearying with his tragical pastime
Moore finally ceased belaboring the
woman and returned to his dive, leaving
her mangled and bleeding form lying on
the prairie.
Williams and his military comrades
conveyed the injured woman to her room
at hlttllng 5 ranch with all possible haste,
and summoned a physician Immediately.
The surgeon dressed the bleeding wounds,
and Pronounced the case a most serious
one, declaring the womans recovery
would be little short OF a miracle, as con-
cussion OF the brain was liable to be fol
lowed by the weakening ravages OF a fatal
fever, which her ~disarranged system could
scarcely Withstand. Since that time the
nbns;o;on hos r;a;tod tLa woman throo
p nA '' y" "" 'nfee
Times daly.
When Deputy Sheriff Vaughn, H
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scious, though very i'll.
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